What the REF review needs
It is good that Baron Stern of Brentford, a known sceptic of the research excellence framework, will chair a review of the exercise, but given the nature of these things I am doubtful of any positive...
It is good that Baron Stern of Brentford, a known sceptic of the research excellence framework, will chair a review of the exercise, but given the nature of these things I am doubtful of any positive...
Journalists – if not their editors – were once thought to be capable of boldly digging for the truth at the expense of the reputations of others, but how many academics dare tread that path (“Could...
While I have no problem at all with involving students as partners (or producers) who advise on teaching and review reading lists, the real problem – from a design perspective – is that while those...
Perhaps it would be more accurate for the article on highly selective universities lowering their entry standards to point out that so-called “elite universities” are no longer quite so elite (“Elite...
Statues such as the one of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford, are actually important as physical memorials to the acts that were perpetrated (“Oxford college agrees to remove Cecil Rhodes plaque...
The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s call for a major new focus on closing the attainment gap is welcome. Not only is there a strong social imperative to narrow the attainment and...
Despite a record number of full-time undergraduates entering universities this year, the overall demand for higher education has been more challenging in recent times thanks to the decline of part-...
With 2016 just ahead, we ponder the state of campuses past, present and future
Bob Lambert, who has quit London Met and St Andrews, fathered child with activist he was spying on
Scholar says academics who move to international outposts do ‘hardly any research’
First foray into Germany for the owner of University of Phoenix
Glen Wright reveals what Yuletide has to do with amphetamines and OCD